Monthly Archives: September 2011

Just a quick post to let you know that I updated the Member’s Brigade today with zip files. There are now 24 episode zip files for every episode of TSP from Episode 1 all the way up to Episode 749.

If you have ever wanted to get every episode of TSP with out downloading them one at a time this is just one benefit of joining the Members Brigade.

You can find these files in the “download” area of the Member’s Brigade. I also occasionally get questions like “how will companies know I am a member so I can get my discounts from them as a Brigade Member”. The answer is simple, in your members area there is an area that is called “benefits” that area provides discount codes and their details for all supporting vendors of the MSB.

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

Courtney Clay was “unschooled” for her entire childhood, and received great benefit from this method of self-directed learning. Now 29 years old she is raising a 2-year-old son of her own.

She is also enthusiastic about sustainability, nature-based community, self-sufficiency, enjoying wild food and all of nature’s healthy, free gifts, and growing and preparing my own nourishing food.

When asked about herself Courtney puts it this way,

“I am a mother, adventurer, and lover of life. I am passionate about my family, community, infinite sustainability, optimal nourishment, and finding truth, empowerment and joy in all my life experiences”.

She also runs an awesome blog called Ecstatic Mothering that can be found at http://chocotrixie.blogspot.com where she discusses alternatives for bring u children in a cookie cutter world where despite what we are told, one size certainly does not fit all.

Join Us Today As We Discuss…

Do we need to force children to learn or will they just do it if we let them?

How do unschoolers learn fundamentals with out traditional structure?

Do unschoolers ever go to college?

How do unschoolers/homeschoolers develop a social life?

Is school really a way to learn about socializing in the “real world”?

Do children institutionalize parents in old age because that is what they were taught?

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

Ready Made Resources just ran a contest to give away an AR15 Upper. Apparently due to some sort of browser issue or scripting issue quite a few of you tried to enter but got failure messages or said that the “submit button on the form was not displayed”.

I discussed this with Robert and he is making it right. All you have to do is send him an email to grisrob @ gmail.com – (ONLY IF YOU TRIED TO ENTER AND IT DIDN’T WORK) – with the following,

1. Your full name
2. Your Address
3. Your email
4. A note saying I tried to enter the AR15 contest but the form gave me an error

You have till Friday to do that and at the time Robert will use a random number generator to pick the winner. They made several efforts to fix this issue during the contest and the problem would go away and come back. I would like to thank Robert for making this right.

AGAIN PLEASE DO NOT SEND AN EMAIL FOR THIS UNLESS YOU TRIED DURING THE CONTEST AND GOT A FAILURE MESSAGE.

That means if you don’t know anything about the AR15 contest you don’t need to worry about this but do make sure to enter our current contest with Bulk Ammo for Free Ammo.

Today I wanted to take a moment to take a look at the concept of consumerism and how it directly conflicts with the preparedness lifestyle. Now don’t get me wrong I am a capitalist libertarian, I believe in the free market but I also believe in making informed consumer decisions.

Consumerism is the opposite of that, consumerism is a heard mentality where providers and producers spend time competing for existing market share and replacing products that are still functional. An informed consumer market requires producers and providers to innovate and create better longer lasting products and services.

Join me today as I discuss…

Early Retirement Extreme – a book that got me thinking this way

Are we in a “climax stage” as in Permaculture

Are companies innovating or competing in existing markets

Working Man v. Salary Man v. Business Man v. Renaissance Man

How our grandparents evaluated a purchase of a product

Do I need it

Does anything I have fill the role now

How long will it last

What will it do for me and my family

How long must I work to pay for it

If I don’t buy it what difference will it really make

How companies market products today

Can we create a fad/cult following around it

What existing market share can we capture with it

Can we build a market to sell subsequent products to

Is it a consumable or designed to fail

How cheaply can we manufacture it

Can we outsource most of the work

Will it last long enough to avoid returns

Can we sell it for less than the competition

Or can we justify a premium at little to no internal cost

How do we avoid the consumerist trap and still have fun and cool stuff

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

BulkAmmo one of our awesome sponsors has stepped up for the next big give away on The Survival Podcast. In fact they are giving away over 450 dollars in top quality ammo to our audience.

For 4 weeks, you have the chance to ask a question on BulkAmmo.com and be entered for the chance to win FREE ammo! Each participant can choose up to 2 products to submit a question for – each unique question per unique product enters your name once for a chance to win (max of 2 entries per person).

Questions must be legitimately related to the product, intelligent, relevant and interesting, useful to the end customer, and refrain from any foul language or inappropriate content. BulkAmmo.com reserves the right to disapprove questions if they do not follow these guidelines and disqualify them from counting for a chance to win.

The Bulk Ammo staff will answer each question as they receive it – once answered the Q & A will appear live on our product page for all customers to see!

Bryan Black from ITS Tactical joins us today to discuss tactical skill sets.

ITS was founded in early 2009 as a joint venture between Military Veterans and those serving in the Special Operations community, ITS Tactical has quickly grown into a definitive resource for skill-set information, tactical gear reviews and DIY projects.

While ITS provides a lot of information specifically designed for the military, LEO and security communities they are also a great resource for preppers even those who are not into “everything tacticool”.

Today Bryan joins us to discuss his personal top ten list of tactical skills that everyone should make a part of their lives, specifically for those of us in a preparedness mindset.

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

Today is Monday and I have a lot of great positive stuff this week along with a lot of interesting questions and concerns from the audience. Remember to submit content for a show like this simply send your email to jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with the appropriate subject line such as article for jack, comment for jack, question for jack, etc. and I will try to get your material on the air.

Please note I receive 200-400 emails (real ones) on an average day, there is no way I can respond to them all or put them all on air, I do read them all though and your thoughts are important to me so keep em coming.

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

Here are some of the pictures from the Denver Self Reliance Expo. Lots of folks were camera shy and we only took picutres of visitors on the second day. Why? Because our brains were fried from travel and the lead up to the show and what have you.

I do know tons of you guys came by and took your own pictures too though on both days, so if you want to share them in the comments below please do.

Remember we are in Salt Lake City on Oct. 7-8 for the next Expo and hope to see many of you there.

So it is our first Friday after the Denver Expo so of course the listener calls show has returned. To submit a call for a show like today, please just call 866-65-THINK and we will try to get you on the air.

Today we have great calls on matched guns, gardening, gold vs inflation, the secret of oz and more. Please keep in mind that if you do call in you should call from a quite area, know what you plan to say before you make your call and insure you are on a land line or at least a cell phone with good signal. There will be no one on the other end of the line to let you know if you can’t be heard clearly.

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.